CEREBROSPINAL FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cerebrospinal fever mean? 

• CEREBROSPINAL FEVER (noun)
  The noun CEREBROSPINAL FEVER has 1 sense:

1. meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

  Familiarity information: CEREBROSPINAL FEVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEREBROSPINAL FEVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

brain fever; cerebrospinal fever; cerebrospinal meningitis; epidemic meningitis

Hypernyms ("cerebrospinal fever" is a kind of...):

meningitis (infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea)